What are you listening to?

This is mostly just for @Breck due to his skepticism, but Ghost was seriously good in concert last week. Exceeded my expectations. Amazing stage, spectacle, and performance. Plus, hard to beat shredding guitar solos live.

(warning, this band is not recommended for most people here methinks... not just stylistically, but for many other reasons.)

 
Evan B said:
This is mostly just for @Breck due to his skepticism, but Ghost was seriously good in concert last week. Exceeded my expectations. Amazing stage, spectacle, and performance. Plus, hard to beat shredding guitar solos live.

(warning, this band is not recommended for most people here methinks... not just stylistically, but for many other reasons.)

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Okay. I liked that a lot more than anything else I've heard from them (which is admittedly pretty minimal). I imagine the experience would be ten-fold live.
 
Breck said:
Okay. I liked that a lot more than anything else I've heard from them (which is admittedly pretty minimal). I imagine the experience would be ten-fold live.
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Their album "Meliora" is absolutely worth a listen if you ever get around to it. They have plenty of "cheesy" (though the campiness was intentional) stuff, but even more seriously good stuff. If you end up liking that one, give "Impera" a listen.
 


I almost like A Perfect Circle more than TOOL in some aspects. APC reallly allows Maynard J Keenan to showcase his vocal abilities a little more. Certainly the case with this song.
 
Way HAH Woah!!! You get these guys on the radio announcing these songs. THIS IS ROCK!!! AH!! Way Hah Woah!!!!
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Skip, gotta ask, is there music you DON'T listen to and if so what kind(s) and why?
Capt Insano Emeritis said:
Death metal. Polka, broadway musicals, classical. Hip-ihop, rap, … generally more than I do listen to.
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Breck said:
There are few things I despise in this world more than musicals. I avoided watching Slumdog Millionaire for years because I thought it was a musical. :ROFLMAO:
I imagine that the first person to come up with the idea said something to the effect of "Hey folks, what if we take a perfectly good story and ruin it every ten minutes?"
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Hmmm...

This thread is about Music. Throughout history, people enjoy, unite, sing together, and have even gone into battle behind a song 🎶 .

I can barely draw stick figures but I'll never forget that in 2nd grade, hearing the 1812 Overture during a music appreciation lesson painted a picture in my mind that I was able to convey by drawing simple wavy blue lines and long red arches with crayons that looked like a sea battle from a distance. To my detriment though, I can become so engrossed in melody, harmony, articulation, and dynamics the first time I hear a piece that I will miss the lyrical content 🤦‍♂️💁‍♂️.

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a movie (or video) is arguably worth millions due to its ability to convey motion, emotion, sound, and sequence over time. But can you imagine a movie without a musical soundtrack? Music in the background conveys even more emotion! Opera, Operettas, Ballet, along with Movie and Stage Musicals have everything that movies have, plus the music as a dominant part! Admittedly Opera's with their vocal dominance especially when sung in Italian, German, and French usually go over my head. 😬

I have been a (mostly performing) musician playing many styles of music, first on trumpet, then moving mainly to rhythm section instruments (guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor banjo, percussion) since the early-1960s. Since 1993 I have performed in pit orchestra rhythm sections, for three to a dozen+ performances each of stage musical productions almost every year since 1993; sometimes 3 productions a year. I find the technical arrangements across a wide spectrum of styles that have to be played precisely, along with flexibility - spontaneity that may sometimes be required to support and fix a cast or tech screw-up to be the most challenging performances (and fun-rewarding when the crowd gets into it) I have ever done.

To each their own, but I am a sucker for; a true fan of musicals! 🎭 🎶

OK, off my soapbox... Oh, and my wife and I had our wedding reception at a local German Biergarten, with a Polka Band. Our R&R and jazzer guests loved it and called for mutiple encores of the Chicken Dance!

I am with you on Death metal, Hip-ihop, & rap though ;)
 
Brian Miller said:
Hmmm...

This thread is about Music. Throughout history, people enjoy, unite, sing together, and have even gone into battle behind a song 🎶 .

I can barely draw stick figures but I'll never forget that in 2nd grade, hearing the 1812 Overture during a music appreciation lesson painted a picture in my mind that I was able to convey by drawing simple wavy blue lines and long red arches with crayons that looked like a sea battle from a distance. To my detriment though, I can become so engrossed in melody, harmony, articulation, and dynamics the first time I hear a piece that I will miss the lyrical content 🤦‍♂️💁‍♂️.

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a movie (or video) is arguably worth millions due to its ability to convey motion, emotion, sound, and sequence over time. But can you imagine a movie without a musical soundtrack? Music in the background conveys even more emotion! Opera, Operettas, Ballet, along with Movie and Stage Musicals have everything that movies have, plus the music as a dominant part! Admittedly Opera's with their vocal dominance especially when sung in Italian, German, and French usually go over my head .😬

I have been a (mostly performing) musician playing many styles of music, first on trumpet, then moving mainly to rhythm section instruments (guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor banjo, percussion) since the early-1960s. Since 1993 I have performed in pit orchestra rhythm sections, for three to a dozen+ performances each of stage musical productions almost every year since 1993; sometimes 3 productions a year. I find the technical arrangements across a wide spectrum of styles that have to be played precisely, along with flexibility - spontaneity that may sometimes be required to support and fix a cast or tech screw-up to be the most challenging performances (and fun-rewarding when the crowd gets into it) I have ever done.

To each their own, but I am a sucker for; a true fan of musicals! 🎭 🎶

OK, off my soapbox... Oh, and my wife and I had our wedding reception at a local German Biergarten, with a Polka Band. Our R&R and jazzer guests loved it and called for mutiple encores of the Chicken Dance!

I am with you on Death metal, Hip-ihop, & rap though ;)
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You reminded me of the modern visial element of music. Painting and drawing to music to music as you described. I did that always during my college years and it opened me ip to symbiotic expression. Meditation did the same . Creating art is way to tap a visual presentation of who you are. Now when my daughters were middle school aged , I shared my music with them , took them to Portland concerts and chaperoned them as young as 13 at the Starry night or Pinestreet. Then came MTV and the addition of contrived visual movies with performers and bands changed the playing field and not in an entirely good way if your great love is the music first.

But then we must remember just how significant the financial side of things are. Just because it takes money to make money and just because we can we should begins to echo in our aging heads as time marches forward and those that tout this are often stereotypically referred to as old curmudgeons. So be it… ;)
 
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This is from Ukraine. Just one track of an 11 track set.

You can find the whole story and more references on NPR.org. Thought I could link it but after 4 tries, not happening.

Edit: for those interested, it's on Amazon Music for pre order and preview. Won't be released until March

Perseverantia https://a.co/d/0cwr6GOz
 
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